Cleaning up a Coleman 3 burner

[CliffinGA]

Ok picked up a Coleman 3 burner off of CL today and I'm wondering how you go about cleaning one up? Is there certain chemicals you use?

Cliff

[starleen2]

Ok picked up a Coleman 3 burner off of CL today and I'm wondering how you go about cleaning one up? Is there certain chemicals you use?

Cliff

Lots of degreaser and elbow grease!
Really - a good disassembly and cleaning is good for the stove. They are not very complex pieces of engineering. Be sure to give the tank and generator a good cleaning

[rainjer]

I always start with Simple Green and a scrub brush. Wash ans rinse with a hose. I pull the burner assembly out when I clean the case. You can use 0000 steel wool in the grate and nickel pieces.

Jeremy

[Zollinger]

Ok picked up a Coleman 3 burner off of CL today and I'm wondering how you go about cleaning one up? Is there certain chemicals you use?

Cliff

Lots of degreaser and elbow grease!
Really - a good disassembly and cleaning is good for the stove. They are not very complex pieces of engineering. Be sure to give the tank and generator a good cleaning

The elbow grease is the hardest to find. Usually find it in the blinker fluid section of the hardware store.

[rainjer]

Ok picked up a Coleman 3 burner off of CL today and I'm wondering how you go about cleaning one up? Is there certain chemicals you use?

Cliff

Lots of degreaser and elbow grease!
Really - a good disassembly and cleaning is good for the stove. They are not very complex pieces of engineering. Be sure to give the tank and generator a good cleaning

The elbow grease is the hardest to find. Usually find it in the blinker fluid section of the hardware store.

Is that near the prop wash?

Jeremy

[Dave A]

I believe it's kept near the relative bearing grease.

Dave

[starleen2]

. . . but seriously - If I was going though all that effort clean it up, I'd disassemble the stove, use aircraft stripper to strip the paint (and the grease goes as well) and repaint the case.

[doug hodder]

Pull the guts out of the stove and degrease the box, I'd use a really hot lacquer thinner and a tooth brush to get into the corners if you are going to do a repaint on it. If the paint is OK...just degrease it. The burners can be taken apart and I use a stainless brush to clean them up. Degrease and use a high temp aluminum paint on the manifold. I paint all but the plates themselves in the burners.

If you take the valve and generator assy out of the tank...remove the knob first, it may hit and dent the tank, then make sure you use a wrench at the square portion on top of the valve assy. If you try to use the generator as leverage to unscrew it...you may break it off...don't ask me how I know this one....duhhhhh! Stoves are less problematic than the lanterns in my opinion. Have fun....Doug

[rainjer]

If you need to a total restoration here is a helpful link.

http://www.oldcolemanparts.com/resource ... _stove.cfm

Jeremy